Daddy's Lil' Squirt

Coconut Painting

squirtsdad — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:48:41 +0000

Some un-used Christmas wrapping paper worked great as a drop cloth and a cupcake tray works great for the paint.

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Squirt shows me, what he calls, an acorn that he found. It’s actually a young coconut.

squirtsdad — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:17:16 +0000

Taken with picplz.

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Squirt loves his new school shoes. He’s cute trying to scrub them.

squirtsdad — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:28:03 +0000

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Squirt practices writing.

squirtsdad — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:32:56 +0000

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At the park playing with Squirt and his Hotwheels

squirtsdad — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:54:04 +0000

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Been hanging with Squirt the last two days. He has a bad cough.

squirtsdad — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:37:38 +0000

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Ninja Fish, That’s Funny

squirtsdad — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:08:01 +0000

A long time ago I taught Squirt his first joke. He mastered his deliver of the joke pretty quickly then he was telling it to everyone in the family. Of course it made everyone laugh and he enjoyed telling it everytime. The joke:

Q. What kind of fish do you catch with gummy worms?

A. Swedish fish.

On a recent night, I got home late from work and he was still awake in bed so I got comfortable right next to him. We started talking and then he told me he had a new joke to tell me. I couldn’t wait to hear it. ”Okay, tell it to me.” I told him.

Q. What kind of fish do you catch with ninja worms?

A. Ninja fish.

Now, that didn’t make any sense at all but it made me laugh. He told me the same joke several times, changing it each time (car worms, car fish; moon worms, moon fish; bed worms, bed fish; etc.) and we laughed after every joke.

When he first told me he had a new joke I expected to hear a new joke but his versions of the, apparently, one joke he knows were very amusing. I listened to a few more of his awesome jokes then we said good night and he was asleep within a few minutes.

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What’s your favorite game from when you were a kid?

squirtsdad — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:11:16 +0000

I remember occupying entire afternoons playing tag or hide-and-go-seek. Now, Squirt is at that age where he understands and loves these games too.

Ask me anything

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Reflecting After The First Year Of Preshool

squirtsdad — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:29:13 +0000

Squirt’s first year of preschool is coming to an end in a few weeks and, like many parents do, I can’t help but think back on the past year. Even before preschool started it was tough for my wife and I to even decide which school he should attend. When the first day of school finally came around I had high hopes but, unfortunately, it didn’t turn out as expected. To make matters worse, over the next few weeks Squirt didn’t adjust well to his preschool.

After much thought, we transferred him to a preschool with which he was more familiar but quite far from our home. We managed to get him squared away in his new school and he came to enjoy it very much. This was a weight lifted off my shoulders.

Last summer I remembered looking forward to Squirt’s first year of preschool very much and now that it has pasted, some memories will always stay with me.

Dressing Squirt for school in his little uniform.

Getting that last hug and kiss from him before he goes into his class.

See that day come when he wanted to walk into the school yard on his own and he made me kiss him in the truck where no one would see.

Seeing him almost burst at the seams with excitement because he had his latest school project to show me.

Doing homework with him.

Listening to him recite the songs he learned in class.

Seeing him write his own name (still a work in progress).

Letting him take the school bus home from school (his preference by the way).

Finding a best friend and inviting him over to play after school.

Listening to the high lights from his day in school.

Squirt's highlight from preschool today, "Dad, a pretty girl came to school today and she smiled at me."—
John Rodriguez (@squirtsdad) May 21, 2011

I can only imagine what the next school-year holds for him, and I, but we are looking forward to it. In the mean time we have a whole summer vacation to enjoy…

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Drifting

squirtsdad — Sun, 29 May 2011 01:31:02 +0000

Sometimes it is a lot of fun seeing the things my son does or the things in which he becomes interested. The things with which he identifies and calls his own. My four year old son’s latest obsession is drifting.

Drifting – A type of precision driving where the driver intentionally over steers, producing a controlled slide through turns, while maintaining vehicle control and a high exit speed.

Doesn’t matter if it is his HotWheels toy car, a racecar in a video game, his bicycle or even a shopping cart, he can make it ‘drift’ and he loves doing it. So much so that we’ve almost had to ban him from pushing the shopping carts in the grocery store. He has had carts land on top of him, he has ended up on top of an over turned cart and has knocked more than a few items of the shelves. And, yes, his favorite movies are The Fast And Furious series.

I hope he either out grows it or masters it by the time he is old enough to drive but until then it is a lot of fun watching him drift and enjoying his favorite movies with him.

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